jackdaw

• The man's own eye seemed like that of a crow or a jackdaw, looking out at the world of men from some other, older form of intelligence. —  F ;SF - vol 089 issue 02 - August 1995
• For Seeger did not so much write songs as pick like a jackdaw at a heritage of gospel, folk, protest and labour union anthems, even slave chants. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
• He was also one of the most lion-hearted men in the Navy When Bill was a baby--a round-faced, large-eyed, fat-legged baby, as unlike to the bronzed, whiskered, strapping seaman who went by the name of "Fighting Bill" as a jackdaw is to a marlinespike--when Bill was a baby, his father used to say he was just cut out for a sailor; and he was right, for the urchin was overflowing with vigour and muscular energy. —  The Battle and the Breeze
• He was a sort of human jackdaw, the picker-up of unconsidered trifles; and especially in the way of provender and of medical comforts he took care to be well provided whatever might befall the rest of us. —  Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
• JACKDAW BALANCING ON A GATEPOST The jackdaw is a big-brained, extremely alert, very educable, loquacious bird Illustration: From Ingersoll's "The Wit of the Wild." —  The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told

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